Building Video Literacy: Sound

This activity, created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, explores how sound is used to create meaning.

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Building Video Literacy: Movement

Explore the different ways movement can occur within a shot in this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology.

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Building Video Literacy: Response

In this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, explore how each shot of a video can evoke a different response in the viewer.

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Building Video Literacy: Purpose

This activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology explores what a shot is designed to accomplish to create the overall meaning of a film.

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About Inspiring Middle School Literacy

This professional development video from WGBH shows how teachers work with their students, using the self-paced lessons from the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection, to improve content knowledge and literacy skills.

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Active Teaching and Learning

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results, to see how strategies such as hands-on activities or participation in group work increase student understanding and confidence.

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

Watch how one teacher conducts formative assessment as part of her statistics class, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Becoming Green Energy Experts

See how Lansing, Michigan inner-city youth become community science experts in energy sustainability and environmental health topics in this student-centric after-school program.

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Bioethics Classroom Debate

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Cherilee Lewis leads a classroom discussion on bioethics.

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Bridging Culture, Community and Science

See how a place-based high school curriculum project promotes STEM learning through local ethnography and conservation projects. This video segment showcases one of 11 CREST projects taking place in rural, coastal Maine communities.

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Challenges of Teaching Biotechnology

In this video interview, high school teacher Diane Provenzano talks about the challenges of teaching biotechnology.

Cheese-Making Lab Activity

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a biotechnology lab.

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Cheese-Making Lab Results

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a discussion of the results of a biotechnology lab.

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Creating a Community of Learners

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results to see how getting to know your students and establishing a positive classroom environment can greatly increase student success.

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Engaging Students in Lecture and Lab

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results in which students move from lecture to lab teams and use algebraic functions to program robots.

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Field Biology

This video segment from the teacher video series Learning That Works uses a case study to highlight the effectiveness of a project-based, real-world approach to teaching science.

Gaining Catfish Aquaculture Skills

See how Mississippi high school students confront the uncertainty and untidiness of science and develop problem-solving strategies in the context of local catfish farming.

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Girls Explore IT Careers

See how BuildIT, an afterschool program in Alameda County, CA, addresses the gender gap in advanced technology careers - promoting middle school girls' fluency in information technologies (IT), interest in math, and IT career awareness.

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Integrating Disciplines in Project-Based Learning

Watch instructors from different disciplines create an integrated project that links concepts from their courses, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Intervening to Prevent a Dropout

This video excerpt from FRONTLINE: "Middle School Moment" proposes that the make-or-break moment for high school dropouts may actually occur in middle school, and presents how one middle school intervenes to prevent dropouts.

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